Fuck you, Micro$oft

Okay, so who here knows about Windows Updates? If you've used a Windows PC, then you've probably had to deal with the fact that Microsoft wants you to regularly let it make your computer take an hour to close so that it can update one of those shitty free programs that you don't even know the existence of.

If you're like me, then you spent as much time avoiding avoiding these things like the plague. After all, the only useful thing to come out of them are new virus definitions for the security system, and if you're not using a third-party security system like Panda or Bullguard, then really, you're not using any security system at all, so these definitions will never be put into practice.

But then comes Windows 8, the thing I wish I'd never let them put on the new laptop. Some bright spark at Microsoft decided that these updates should be compulsory. They want you to know that Microsoft Office has learned a new word, damnit. Okay, so I now can't turn my laptop off without letting them do the updates. Fair enough, it's a little annoying, but I can deal with it.

Except they gave the OS the ability to force a restart so that it can install updates. I'm not kidding. My laptop has taken to resetting itself of its own accord. And the best part? It disguises these forced restarts as crashes. 

See, Microsoft, this is why everyone hates you. Well, this and the Xbox One.

Oh, and the brilliant thing is that this time, the thing decided to log itself out of Steam. ANd delete my saved password, so I now can't get back in, because I haven't had to use that password in about two months. Okay, right now, the only thing keeping me involved in PC gaming is the social aspect, that being that none of my friends have a Wii U. Well, and the fact that I don't have Mario Kart 8, and Smash 4 isn't out yet. 

Seriously failing to see how the "Glorious PC Gaming Master Race" got so elitist when there's never been a case of a console shitting itself because its operating system learned that the original English language spells things differently to American English. Long live the console peasants.

Come to the Light Side, we have Smash Brothers. Well, soon we will. We have Mario Kart, and that's awesome too.